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We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Ansel Adams – View from river valley, “Canyon de Chelly” National Monument, Arizona.

DOCUMERICA Favorites

Archive of Bart Simpson’s Blackboard Writings

7:05:57 AM – Please don’t leave the building. One of the towers just collapsed!
PLease, please be careful. Repeat,
8:51:31 AM – Andrew.Terzakis@pentagon.af.mil|Please call Pentagon Weather|UNCLASSIFIED
Please call Pentagon Weather…….reference 1030 Meeting…..703-695-0406
ANDREW J. TERZAKIS, Lt
8:53:44 AM – “NYPD Ops Div” <|1 PCT WORLD TRADE CENTER|— 1 PCT – WORLD TRADE CENTER –
POSSIBLE EXPLOSION WORLD TRADE CENTER BUILDING. LEVEL 3 MOBILIZATION TO CHURCH
AND VESSY.

From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks will release over half a million US national text pager intercepts.
The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
To foster a deeper understanding, the messages will be released to the global community “live”. That is, the first message, corresponding to 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, will be released at 3AM November 25, 2009 and the last, corresponding to 3AM September 12, 2001 at 3AM November 26, 2009.
To follow the release, please visit http://911.wikileaks.org

Interesting ones in the discussion

Building an archive of ALL documented human languages

The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.

Fifty to ninety percent of the world’s languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation.

Year: 1909

This flight demonstration of American aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright was of a special historic nature: it involved images from the first camera aboard a plane.

MTV launched its new music video-only Web site, MTVmusic.com, a giant archive featuring their music videos – from MTV’s first in 1981 to current artists.

Huge archive of videos, organized by artist, views and most rated with an interface that resembles Hulu. This should have existed years ago.

(the videos can be embedded)

1933 – 2008